A very rare glimpse at some forgotten comedians and comic actors. I am ashamed I can't identify 'em all, so speak up if you can! Whose the other fella with the pencil moustache that is not Willard Waterman?

About 90% sure that the other pencil-mustache guy is Jack Durant, who used to do a double act with Frank Mitchell, where they basically slap, punch, kick, and generally pummel each other.Later Durant did a stand-up single; I saw him do this in the British movie No Orchids For Miss Blandish, and on David Frost's show circa 1970; his toupee on this occasion was even worse than the one he's wearing here.

Over the weekend I looked at my DVD of No Orchids For Miss Blandish.I am now 100% ceratin that the other pencil-mustache guy is Jack Durant.Furhtermore, having just rewatched the entire Just For Laffs, I am also certain that Harold Peary isn't in it; Peary's bushy, curly hair was his most distinctive feature, and it's nowhere to be found here.But who was the guy at the far right of the second group? I'm thinking one of the Stroud twins, but which one?

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